Barnes & Noble swaps books for vinyl: 2015 is set to be a record-breaking year for vinyl sales, which might explain the outpouring of vinyl appreciation events. From vinyl summits and workshops to Record Store Day’s Vinyl Tuesday project, the initiatives keep rolling in. The latest celebration is “Vinyl Day”, which, oddly enough, is spearheaded by USA’s largest retail bookseller Barnes & Noble.
Record store owner shares love of music for three decades: Scott Shepard, owner of Time Traveler Records, has been sharing his passion for music with the community for 35 years. He spends his days happily discussing music with customers and listening to vinyl on the record player that sits next to his desk. The desk overlooks an impressive collection of CDs, DVDs and vinyl, and the walls are plastered with posters of famous musicians.
American Dream Hi-Fi ready for big move to downtown: It’s not every day that a young man from Battle Creek, Michigan, makes his way to Kokomo, and after a seemingly secure job falls through, starts a successful vinyl record store. But, that’s the unlikely story Mike Wilson has to tell.
YouTube streams less lucrative than vinyl sales for UK labels, says BPI boss: The boss of British music industry body the BPI has claimed UK labels make less money from YouTube than from vinyl sales. Speaking at the Music Futures conference in Gateshead, Geoff Taylor said vinyl revenues were worth more than the “14bn music streams on YouTube” in 2014.
Roll With It vinyl night to launch at Bedford burger bar Herd: THE CD is dead, the headlines tell us. Downloads are dominating the music industry and if it weren’t for nostalgic 90s kids, casettes would have disappeared completely. So why have a Bedford engineer and scientist decided to launch a vinyl event encouraging people to bring and play their own records?
